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1	The Renaissance more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist Introduction by Lawrence Evans. Oscar Wilde called this collection of essays the 'holy writ of beauty'. Published to great acclaim in 1837, it examines the work of Renaissance artists such as Winckelmann and the then neglected Botticelli, and includes a celebrated discussion of the Mona Lisa in a study of Da Vinci. The book strongly influenced art ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist "The Renaissance" is a strikingly original and influential collection of essays in which Walker Pater gave memorable expression to an aesthetic view of life. It has never before been published in a scholarly edition. Donald L. Hill reproduces Pater's text of 1893, with a record of all verbal variations in other editions, from the early magazine ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.47! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Marius the Epicurean more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist Pater's novel was painstakingly composed over the course of six years in the 1880s to stand as both the most complete exposition of his philosophy and as a concrete example of his aesthetic ideals. The narrative follows the fictional character, Marius, from boyhood through to his education and young manhood as he searches for the governing ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.19! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Greek Studies a Series of Essays more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist Walter Horatio Pater (1839-1894) was an English essayist and art and literary critic. After graduating from Oxford he became acutely interested in literature, beginning to write articles and criticisms. The first of these to be printed was a brief essay upon Coleridge, contributed in 1866 to the Westminster Review. A few months later (January, ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $10.33! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Imaginary Portraits more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist A collection of fictionalized accounts of historic figures, written by a 19th-century scholar of Renaissance art and literature. "The Child in the House", out of print since 1904, appears along with "Gaston de Latour", an unfinished novel. The common thread is the search for a new aesthetic. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.96! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Appreciations with an Essay on Style more books like this by Walter Horatio Pater add to wishlist Walter Horatio Pater (1839-1894) was an English essayist and art and literary critic. After graduating from Oxford he became acutely interested in literature, beginning to write articles and criticisms. The first of these to be printed was a brief essay upon Coleridge, contributed in 1866 to the Westminster Review. A few months later (January, ... see all copies from $2.47! new only from $9.59! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Essays from The Guardian more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist Walter Horatio Pater (1839-1894) was an English essayist and art and literary critic. After graduating from Oxford he became acutely interested in literature, beginning to write articles and criticisms. The first of these to be printed was a brief essay upon Coleridge, contributed in 1866 to the Westminster Review. A few months later (January, ... see all copies from $8.23! new only from $8.23! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Gaston de LaTour an Unfinished Romance more books like this by Walter Horatio Pater add to wishlist Those who were curious to trace the symmetries of chance or destiny felt now quite secure in observing that, of nine French kings of the name, every third Charles had been a madman. Over the exotic, nervous creature who had inherited so many delicacies of organisation, the coarse rage or rabies of the wolf, part, doubtless, of an inheritance older ... see all copies from $8.38! new only from $8.38! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Plato and Platonism more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist Walter Pater was destined to join the clergy after meeting John Keble in 1855. After reading Ruskin's "Modern Painters" his interest in the aesthetic was kindled and he eventually tutored Oscar Wilde. His book on Plato and Plato's philosophy was published in 1893 a year before he died. "By Platonism," the author clarifies, "is meant not Neo ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Miscellaneous Studies: A Series of Essays more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist MISCELLANEOUS STUDIES - 1917 - 1895 - PREFACE THE volume of Greek Studies, issued early in the present year, dealt with Mr. Paters contributions to the study of Greek art, mythology, and poetry. The present volume has no such unifying principle. Some of the papers would naturally find their place alongside of those collected in Imaginary Portraits ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $10.10! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Marius the Epicurean, Two Volumes more books like this by Walter Horatio Pater add to wishlist see all copies from $12.73! new only from $12.73! \| SVS
12 view cover	Giordano Bruno, and Aesthetic Poetry (Dodo Press) more books like this by Walter Horatio Pater add to wishlist Walter Horatio Pater (1839-1894) was an English essayist and art and literary critic. After graduating from Oxford he became acutely interested in literature, beginning to write articles and criticisms. The first of these to be printed was a brief essay upon Coleridge, contributed in 1866 to the Westminster Review. A few months later (January, ... see all copies from $8.94! new only from $8.94! \| SVS
13 view cover	Leonardo de Vinci by Walter Horatio Pater add to wishlist see all copies from $11.84! new only from $11.84! \| SVS
14 view cover	Style more books like this by Walter Horatio Pater add to wishlist And what applies to figure or flower must be understood of all other accidental or removable ornaments of writing whatever; and not of specific ornament only, but of all that latent colour and imagery which language as such carries in it. A lover of words for their own sake, to whom nothing about them is unimportant, a minute and constant observer ... see all copies from $9.29! new only from $9.29! \| SVS
15 view cover	Coleridge more books like this by Walter Horatio Pater add to wishlist In this late age we are become so familiarised with the greater works of art as to be little sensitive of the act of creation in them: they do not impress us as a new presence in the world. Only sometimes, in productions which realise immediately a profound influence and enforce a change in taste, we are actual witnesses of the moulding of an ... see all copies from $9.34! new only from $9.34! \| SVS
16 view cover	Gaston de LaTour more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist Walter Horatio Pater (1839-1894) was an English essayist and art and literary critic. After graduating from Oxford he became acutely interested in literature, beginning to write articles and criticisms. The first of these to be printed was a brief essay upon Coleridge, contributed in 1866 to the Westminster Review. A few months later (January, ... see all copies from $6.50! new only from $9.31! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Greek Studies more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist This book will be shipped within one month of being ordered. see all copies from $10.49! new only from $13.72! \| SVS
18 view cover	Miscellaneous Studies more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist Hence the splendour, the space, the novelty, of the great French cathedrals in the first Pointed style, monuments for the most part of the artistic genius of laymen, significant pre-eminently of that Queen of Gothic churches at Amiens. In most cases those early Pointed churches are entangled, here or there, by the constructions of the old round ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $15.12! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Essays from 'The Guardian' and Giordano Bruno more books like this by Walter Horatio Pater add to wishlist see all copies from $10.72! new only from $10.72! \| SVS
20 view cover	Marius the Epicurean, Volume Two more books like this by Horatio Walter Pater add to wishlist see all copies from $87.41! new only from $87.41! \| SVS
21 view cover	Marius the Epicurean, Volume One more books like this by Horatio Walter Pater add to wishlist see all copies from $87.49! new only from $87.49! \| SVS
22 view cover	Marius the Epicurean, Volume One more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist Pater's novel was painstakingly composed over the course of six years in the 1880s to stand as both the most complete exposition of his philosophy and as a concrete example of his aesthetic ideals. The narrative follows the fictional character, Marius, from boyhood through to his education and young manhood as he searches for the governing ... see all copies from $124.48!
23 view cover	Marius the Epicurean Volume I [Easyread Edition] more books like this by Walter Horatio Pater add to wishlist In the exquisite prose style that was profound and perceptive, Pater has united philosophy, truth and moral values. He draws the portrait of a young man whose quest for truth takes him from Stoicism to Cyrenaicism to Epicurianism and finally to Christianity. The book imparts the idea that ethical traditions of religion are important as they are ... see all copies from $27.00!
24 view cover	Marius the Epicurean, Volume Two more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist Pater's novel was painstakingly composed over the course of six years in the 1880s to stand as both the most complete exposition of his philosophy and as a concrete example of his aesthetic ideals. The narrative follows the fictional character, Marius, from boyhood through to his education and young manhood as he searches for the governing ... see all copies from $24.95!

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